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You're exactly right. There is no oral Torah, but many Jews are taught there is one. That it was secret instructions given to Levites in the wilderness, but really fabricated by rabbis around 300ad in exile

Started reading Paul Schneider's autobiography. Pastor who grew up in Germany before and during WWII. Draws some disconcerting parallel's between Germany than, and America now. Especially when it comes to self-censorship of free speech, I think we are already there.

Finished Schneider's autobiography, pretty short book. Close to the time he started getting in trouble with the SS a friend of his tried to tell him to tone down his opinions contrary to the Nazi's, and pointed out his wife and four children. Schneider looks at the guy with obvious emotion and says "God has charged me with my families spiritual well-being as well as their physical"(my paraphrase). In a fucking scary situation with a young family like that, for Paul to see so clearly what mattered not just at that moment, but for eternity.. wow. I hope I can be half that man if my time comes.

Thanks @NuttBoxer I did not know about Schneider.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Schneider_(pastor)

https://t.me/kagbabe/8695

Tucker Carlson gives advice to young men.

"Read books. Actual, physical books. Set aside an hour every day. Any book written before WW2 has a kind of ease about it. There’s less self-censorship. This was a much freer country before WW2. It’s very obvious in the literature."

I'm still on my Aunt Millie's old Latin textbook. This is going to take months, but I'm enjoying it.

Patrick says

This makes me think that the Chinese have read The Prince and are using BLM, gays, and militant feminism as allies in their fight against America.

Look at who funds groups like AntiFa and other Woke statists and militant groups. It non profits like Act Blue and Bend the Arc.

Have to find out how these non profits get funded and from who. I would not be surprised if Chicom money such as from Chicom-connected businesses are involved with indirectly funding these non profits.

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Patrick says

won’t be removed by cancel culture from your book shelf remotely

I might have plugged it before, but Richard Taylor's book on his experience in the Civil War(Southern officer), is a very good application of Lee's letter. I've heard the same of Stonewall Jackson's, although Sheridan certainly his an interesting take on the man.

I found "San Fran-Sicko" in the Menlo Park public library, which was surprising because usually their new books are all promoting anti-white hatred and little else.

I'll post some choice insights from the book on this thread. First one : the homeless shelters and public housing are primary locations of drug dealing in SF, with the people who run them often being the dealers. That is, government employees are using their proximity to the homeless as an opportunity to sell them drugs.

NuttBoxer says

Sheridan's book on his experience in the Civil War(Southern officer),

General Sheridan was a Northern officer. Famous for ripping up Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.

NuttBoxer says

I might have plugged it before, but Richard Taylor's book on his experience in the Civil War(Southern officer), is a very good application of Lee's letter. I've heard the same of Stonewall Jackson's, although Sheridan certainly his an interesting take on the man.

Yikes, corrected.

Trying to read Ulysses, haven't made it very far. Definitely understand the critique on it being a tough read.

I agree. I just can't understand Joyce.

That makes me feel better. Lots of Irish specific references I figured I'm missing the meaning of, but if even an Irishman can't fathom them, I'm not doing as bad as I thought.

NuttBoxer says

That makes me feel better. Lots of Irish specific references I figured I'm missing the meaning of, but if even an Irishman can't fathom them, I'm not doing as bad as I thought.

Learn to read current and ancient Latin, Greek, and Irish, study Irish mythology in depth, as well as Greek Mythology, take some shrooms once in a while to relate the schizoid frame of reference, mixed analogies, and puns, think of a wobbly camera reeling through Dublin changing perspective constantly, and it will be one of the best books you have ever read (so I heard, I barely got past 'riverrun').

Patrick says

I've known some former 'homeless', including one of my oldest friends who was quite prosperous, but the drugs and booze got him. He wound up living in his car, then behind his car, until the car got towed, which is a common spirol for addicts. He was on the streets of Oakland for a couple of years. He wound up getting sober, rebuilding his life, and becoming quite prosperous again. Mentally ill, oddly enough, with medication can usually function enough to live in group homes and do OK as long as they are not taking or seeking street drugs.

Drugs, alcohol etc. can make you crazy as well as addicted, and typically, it requires at least six months to a year drying them out to even diagnose mental status, and who is going to go to the expense for a possibly brain damaged and homeless person(s)?

Patrick says

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First, prohibition created alcoholism. Maybe a bit of an exaggeration, but fact is, most people never tried hard liquor until prohibition.
Second, I don't know of any addict who's quit because they got arrested. Does anyone?
Third, my relative who sold cannabis in Chicago would still be alive if it was legal. He was shot during a deal that went bad.

You cannot legislate morality or good choices. Black markets are always more dangerous than buying and selling legally. And the War on Us is still one of the greatest failures in American history, preceded only by the War of Terror, but still ahead of the Scamdemic.

Watch The Wire, Season 3, then tell me about drug laws.

Patrick says

Just finished Going Solo by Roald Dahl, the children's writer. It's about his time before WWII in East Africa, and during WWII as a British fighter pilot.

Why aren't you reading books emblazoned on flayed and tanned human flesh? That's where you will find out the way the world really works.

https://notthebee.com/article/why-do-you-need-to-own-so-many-books-they-ask-heres-why

In eras of mass censorship and overzealous ideology, books are often the first thing to go. Books are perfect mass mediums for the transmission of knowledge, which is why they're so often targets of censors and busybodies and dictators.

Keep your large book collections. Make them larger. Don't give them up. They're necessary.

Patrick says

Patrick says

Let me try a crack at the new Mother Goose:

There was and Old Women
Who lived in a shoe
She had so many kids
She did not know what to do
She lived in a Red State
So abortion was moot
She still having kids
So she moved to a Boot

-HeadSet

https://notthebee.com/article/never-in-a-million-years-did-i-think-id-ever-see-this-headline-but-i-am-so-here-for-it

British government warns that reading Tolkien, Lewis, Orwell, and John Locke radicalizes people into far-right extremism ...

Britain has a government program called "Prevent" that was founded in 2019 to research what causes a Muslim to become a terrorist.

[Hint: It's reading the Quran]

... Since it would be very bigoted for this program to look into the actual ideologies that are causing the vast, overwhelming majority of violence, terror, and crime on the planet, they had to make sure they gave those evil conservatives and Christians a shake down. ...

There is also a reading list of historical texts which produce red flags to RICU. These include 'Leviathan' by Thomas Hobbes, John Locke's 'Two Treatises of Government' and Edmund Burke's 'Reflections on the Revolution in France,' as well as works by Thomas Carlyle and Adam Smith. Elsewhere RICU warns that radicalisation could occur from books by authors including C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Aldous Huxley and Joseph Conrad. I kid you not, though it seems that all satire is dead, but the list of suspect books also includes '1984' by George Orwell.

No Dickens!? I bet it's coming...

I've started learning a bit of ancient Greek, so I'm going to bookmark this nice presentation of the alphabet here:



I'm going to run through this before getting a paper book to study:

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/getting-started-on-ancient-greek/content-section-overview?active-tab=content-tab

HeadSet says

Let me try a crack at the new Mother Goose:

There was and Old Women
Who lived in a shoe
She had so many kids
She did not know what to do
She lived in a Red State
So abortion was moot
She still having kids
So she moved to a Boot

-HeadSet

Sounds like a slut with a lot of baby daddies, and is on welfare, and is using her kids for income.

Patrick says

This Tom Wolf?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wolf

I'm always suspicious about rags from riches stories.

richwicks says

Sounds like a slut with a lot of baby daddies, and is on welfare, and is using her kids for income.

Or by having many baby daddies, get a separate child support from each. Anyway, the joke is the moving to a boot, not any jab at Red states as I agree with outlawing abortion.

Revised:
There was and Old Women
Who lived in a shoe
She had so many kids
She did not know what to do
She's still putting out
To bring in the loot
But with so many kids
She's moved to a Boot

HeadSet says

Or by having many baby daddies, get a separate child support from each. Anyway, the joke is the moving to a boot, not any jab at Red states as I agree with outlawing abortion.

I am anti-abortion and pro-choice. I don't think people should get an abortion, yet, I think they should be allowed to.

Since abortion exists, and it's "a woman's choice", I don't believe in child support either. SHE made the choice to have it, he didn't.

When abortion was legalized, there were very few birth control methods allowed. I know that in the 1940's LYSOL was used to prevent pregnancy as a douche. I have heard women from that time SWEAR by it as well. There was a time where in many states, women could only get birth control if their husband allowed it.

I'm a proponent of RISUG:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4345756/

which is now being trialed (forever) as Vasagel

https://www.parsemus.org/2022/07/next-steps-for-vasalgel/

This will NEVER get through FDA approval, I view them as a scam. I've known about them for over 10 years, it would make female contraceptives obsolete. The way it works is a gel is injected into your vas deferens (basically your male fallopian tubes) and this destroys sperm. It might be that it simply blocks sperm flow, it's odd they don't know. Anyhow, it's reversible male sterility, and has been EXTENSIVELY tested in animals, and people - RISUG was used in India, but India also forcibly sterilized males up until like 1970.

As we all know (now) you can't trust the medical establishment as to whether its reversible or not, but it costs like $5 for the injection, it's an outpatient procedure, and it's not available in the United States, because it would make female contraceptives obsolete. Male sterility is permanent until the man decides he wants to have children, and its reversibility isn't well known.

Although it's been extensively tested in animals, animals aren't human beings. RISUG has been used in India since the 1970's, but reversibility wasn't studied. It might be an alternative to castration for animals. When I did dog fostering and rescue, I really didn't enjoy doing castration and spaying. The dogs I had were unwanted and had nobody to care for them, but I still felt like shit taking away their reproductive ability permanently. I had some great dogs, and they should have had children. They were better dogs as dogs than I am a good human being in humanity.

https://twitter.com/WokeArchive/status/1653911334495346688?ref_src=patrick.net

Savage!

Elect that kid now. Imagine him in a debate with Kamala.